WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Sex sells. So does baloney and now globaloney, which is complete falsehood told with bravado. The world is flat for some, flat broke for many more. America's predatory lenders, subprime mortgage brokers, various and sundry con artists, combined forces to blind America's monetary sentinels, rip off the world and give America's democratic capitalism a bad name.
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